Today’s Beautiful Music is a postcard from the 2017 Bengal Classical Music Festival, which is supported by the Bengal Foundation to promote, nurture, and uphold the musical traditions of Bengal. Flutist Pandit Ronu Majumdar, sarod player Pandit Debojyoti Bose and tabla virtuosos Pandit Yogesh Samsi and Pandit Abhijit Banerjee are the performers. Below are links […]

Paul Creston (1906-1985) was a prolific self-taught composer of some 120 works. He started piano lessons (and composing music for fun) at age 8, and taught himself to play his brother’s violin. He was also interested in literature and poetry as a boy, and some of his musical compositions were wrote inspired by Walt Whitman.

The Early Music Festival Utrecht was founded in 1982, and features a variety of concerts, as well as various workshops and masterclasses, and brings in young talent from all over the world. The goal of the festival is to keep the adventure of early music alive. Today’s Beautiful Music is the Opening Concert from the

The Edinburgh International Festival is going on right now (August 2-24) and this year’s festival celebrates “RITUALS THAT UNITE US.” Violinist Nicola Benedetti is Festival Director. There’s a link to the Festival website below. Today’s Beautiful Music is Nicola Benedetti performing at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh in 2023. https://www.eif.co.uk

Today’s Beautiful Music is a concert from the Bloomington (IN) Early Music Festival, which took place in May 2024. The title of the program is THE GREAT FEAR: MUSICAL EXILES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, and you can learn more about the program and the festival itself using the link below. https://blemf.org/festival2024

Today’s Beautiful Music is from the 2014 Carmel Bach Festival. Caterina Lichtenberg and Mike Marshall are the featured musicians in this exciting performance. You can also enjoy a performance from Carmel Bach’s Festival’s Young Artist’s Showcase 2023. Check out the link below to the Carmel Bach Festival’s website. https://bachfestival.org/

Today’s Beautiful Music is an ensemble performance from the 2023 Boston Early Music Festival featuring the Youth Ensemble playing a varied program. BEMF BEYOND BORDERS is led by recorder player Nina Stern, who is BEMF Director of Community Engagement. She is also on the faculty of Juilliard’s Historical Performance program, and Artistic Director of S’Cool

Hugo Kauder was a Viennese Jewish composer who lived from 1888-1972. He composed approximately 300 works, many of them still unpublished. Today’s Beautiful Music is Euclid Quartet’s recording of Hugo Kauder’s 4th String Quartet, composed in 1927. There’s also a link to an interview with Hugo Kauder’s biographer, scholar and pianist Karin Wagner.